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| Ali Fife |
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I make jewellery using porcelain, adding body stains and rolling, twisting, grating and combing the clay to create a variety of marbling and other effects within the agate ware tradition. The porcelain is unglazed giving a soft matt finish that has a stone-like appearance. Each piece is sanded before a single firing. It is high-fired so although very fine and with the appearance of delicacy, the jewellery is very strong. After firing, the shards are assembled into jewellery using mainly silver or silver plated findings (the rings, clasps, etc). |
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Stud earrings with reversed colours. |
Pendant on fine chain and earrings on ear wires. |
Pin brooch and earrings |
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| douglas fitch |
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Earthenware |
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Thrown |
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Wood-fired |
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My work is wheel made traditional slipware fired in a kiln fuelled by wood. I have been potting for over twenty years, but established my current workshop at Hollyford Pottery, deep in rural Devon, in 2004. My work demonstrates a distinct influence from English country pottery, Mediaeval pottery and the work of my mentor Clive Bowen, who I have assisted as a mainstay of his firing team for fifteen years. |
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pots drying in the workshop |
Firing |
Jug 9" high |
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| Doreen Gardner |
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Stoneware |
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Sculpted |
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Electric |
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Retired College of Education Senior Lecturer in Ceramics. Professional potter now specialising in large hand-built sculptural garden pots, sculptural birds and animals. Sells throughout galleries and retail outlets in UK and internationally. Exhibits at garden shows. Interested in smoking and working with sulphates. Associate member CPA. Past chairman WPA. |
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Standing & sitting Lawn Sheep |
Goose |
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| Tim Gee |
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Porcelain |
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Thrown |
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Electric |
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My work is focused on the use of translucent porcelain, using a shellac resist technique to add texture and vary the wall thickness. A member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, The Craft Potters Association, The Society of Designer Craftsmen, selected maker with the Crafts Council and the membership secretary for the Westcountry Potters Association. I exhibit throughout Great Britain and in Holland. |
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Deep open - striped |
Open bowl - banded straw |
Deep open bowl - Mountains |
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My creativity comes from engaging with my surroundings and I find inspiration from surface patterns and textures. Although I was born and bred in Devon, my travels have led me as far away as Italy where I spent time enjoying its remarkable beauty and many rural settings. I graduated in 2004 and am continuing to establish myself as an Artist. My work consists of fine vessels in porcelain and bone china and contemporary ceramic lighting. My studio is based in Exeter and recent designs include a range of porcelain jewellery.
I feel that part of being a designer maker is having the ability to make an object that says something to you. I try to achieve some sort of connection, not recreating something from nature more of a trigger. Drawn to the pureness of porcelain, my intention is to explore surface decoration and give identity and personality to my work by pushing the materials boundaries to exploit its inherent properties and translate them into a series of forms.
I’m particularly interested in the unglazed surface and spend time polishing to a very fine finish which not only feels wonderful to touch but contrasts beautifully against texture and colour making you want to reach out and touch. My inspiration comes from natural formations and erosion, seaside and coastal locations are a favourite where I can stumble across a special pebble and see sand trails blown by the wind.
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Veysey Light (Porcelain) with hand applied coloured slip |
Cone Vessel (Porcelain) with hand applied coloured slip detail |
Doodle Vessel (Bone China) with hand applied coloured slip detail |
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| Susanne Gosling |
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Stoneware |
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Sculpted |
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Electric |
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Susanne is a professional potter making mainly non-functional vessels. Her inspiration comes from the beauty of the female form. The surfaces are smooth and textured, finishes with a stonelike quality. |
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50cm x 32cm |
40cm x 23cm |
38cm x 35cm |
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